‘The New Yorker’ Profiles Eugene Mirman’s Live Version of ‘StarTalk’

“Throughout the show, these jokes created pauses for laughter, welcome little breaks in the onslaught of science, that allowed our brains to track, like undersea robots, the terrain that was laid before us. When Nye asked Gallo a high-minded question about the ages of ice and of water and their relation to the origin of life on Earth, Mirman said, ‘Yeah—where did life begin? Just curious.’ He added, ‘And don’t say a really cool garden.’”

- from The New Yorker’s new piece all about Eugene Mirman and Bill Nye doing a live version of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Nerdist web series StarTalk, which combines comedian guests with science experts.